Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack Frey and Dave Gordon at number three and five singles respectively are the most nearly similar. Both emphasize steady baseline play and often outrally their opponents. They both, however, must learn decisive net play to rank with Hughes and Craig...
...silk-gowned, straw-bonneted officials wore different buttons according to their rank-from ruby red down through worked coral, smooth coral, pale blue, dark blue, crystal, ivory and gold. But they all talked the same line. They referred to presents from the British Crown as "tribute." They insisted silkily that matters of commerce could wait. Much more important-was the British ambassador ready to kowtow...
Once they asked the ambassador to kowtow before the figure of a dragon; the imperial emblem. This struck the Occidentals as an Oriental trick that would somehow signify their subservience. Amherst offered to do so if a mandarin of equal rank would genuflect before a portrait of the British sovereign. "Inadmissible!" snapped the Chinese. Amherst played the idea a bit further. He would kowtow to the Emperor if it were guaranteed that any Chinese ambassador in London would make similar obeisance to the English throne. "Impossible!" snorted the mandarins...
Germany ... to an equal rank and to lasting association with them...
...Oxford man now working in the British Museum Library in London. He has large, sad, slightly protuberant eyes, the mournful, darkling air of most younger British writers, and a considerable reputation in some unexpected quarters. Sean O'Faolain has hailed him as a writer of the first rank; Vogue says his "mind has the sudden round-the-corner surprise of Saki...